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* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is 13 years old and is friends with Alice, who is older than time itself. Nobody at all questions it.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice, a 15 year old, meets the 40 year old Bob, and they become friends. Bob, however, is planning on grooming her as he sees her as an easy target due to her age. She doesn't realize he's trying to use her until it's too late.



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* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob have an uncommon shared interest that overrides the age gap.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Alice and Bob have an uncommon shared interest that overrides the age gap.gap.
** Alice is a friend of Bob's parents (or other older relatives of Bob's), and since they hang out a lot, Bob started becoming friends with Alice too.
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* '''Conversed''': ???"Interesting how Alice and Bob are such good friends, Bob is old enough to be Alice's dad!"

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a teenager; Bob is eight years old.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Alice is a teenager; Bob is eight years old.old.
** Alice and Bob ''appear'' to be the same age. However, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Alice is much older than she looks]] -- while Bob actually is the age that he looks.

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** Alice and Bob are from different generations and are {{archenem|y}}ies.

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** Alice and Bob are from different generations and [[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain are {{archenem|y}}ies.archenemies.]]



* '''ImpliedTrope''': Bob happily greets a grown woman after getting out of school. His teacher questions if she's a female relative and Bob says "no."



%%* '''Implied''': Alice and Bob's age are fairly ambiguous, they could be far apart, they could be close together.

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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Another character knows that Bob will be friendly with an individual of Alice's age so they put Bob in a position where they have to befriend someone of Alice's age for beneficial reasons.



* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???"Bob, it's interesting that you, given your age, is friends with me, given my older age"



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%%* '''Implied''': ???Alice and Bob's age are fairly ambiguous, they could be far apart, they could be close together.
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[MayflyDecemberFriendship Alice is an immortal; Bob is eight years old.]]

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* '''Exaggerated''': [[MayflyDecemberFriendship Alice is an immortal; Bob is eight five years old.]]

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* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob are friends; they are exactly the same age.
* '''Subverted''': Alice, who looks thirty years old, and Bob, who looks thirteen years old, are friends...but then it turns out that Alice has had a very stressful life and is much {{younger than she looks}}.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then Bob reveals that he's a HumanAlien and is really a century old.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice looks like she's thirty and Bob looks like he's thirteen, but Alice is really much younger than she looks thanks to a stressful life and Bob is a hundred-year-old human alien. But it turns out that because of the long time Bob can expect to live, his age is proportionately closer to that of a twelve-year-old human...at least, that's what he's guessing.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Alice and Bob are friends; they are exactly the same age.
age (in the strictest sense, as they were born at ''precisely'' the same moment on the same day).
** Alice and Bob are from different generations and are {{archenem|y}}ies.
* '''Subverted''': Alice, who looks thirty years old, and Bob, who looks thirteen years old, are friends...friends ... but then it turns out that Alice has had a very stressful life and is much {{younger [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks}}.
looks]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then Bob reveals that he's a HumanAlien {{Human Alien|s}} and is really [[OlderThanTheyLook really]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a century old.
old]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice looks like she's thirty and Bob looks like he's thirteen, but Alice is really much younger than she looks thanks to a stressful life and Bob is a hundred-year-old human alien. But it turns out that because of the long time Bob can expect to live, his age is proportionately closer to that of a twelve-year-old human...human ... at least, that's what he's guessing. guessing.
* '''Parodied''': Bob and/or Alice refuse to be friends with people their own age.



* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yeah, people think it's funny to be friends with someone old enough to be my mom."
* '''Invoked''': Bob's mother introduces him to an older relative, hoping they'll bond with each other.

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* '''Enforced''': ???
ExecutiveMeddling demanded a KidAppealCharacter for ''The Alice Show''.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yeah, people think it's funny to be friends with someone old enough to be my mom."
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* '''Invoked''': Bob's mother introduces him to an older relative, hoping they'll bond with each other.



* '''Reconstructed''': Similar relationships are common enough in this setting that she isn't MistakenForPedophile. Or, if she is, an investigation exonerates her.



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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice winds up MistakenForPedophile due to her relationship with Bob being suspicious given lack of other connections.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Alice looks like she's thirty and Bob looks like he's thirteen, but Alice is really much younger than she looks thanks to a stressful life and Bob is a hundred-year-old human alien. But it turns out that because of the long time Bob can expect to live, his age is proportionately closer to that of a twelve-year-old human...at least, that's what he's guessing.
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'''Basic Trope''': A friendship between two people with different ages.
* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are best friends, but Alice is a forty-year-old and Bob is a thirteen-year-old.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[MayflyDecemberFriendship Alice is an immortal; Bob is eight years old.]]
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a teenager; Bob is eight years old.
* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob have an uncommon shared interest that overrides the age gap.
* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob are friends; they are exactly the same age.
* '''Subverted''': Alice, who looks thirty years old, and Bob, who looks thirteen years old, are friends...but then it turns out that Alice has had a very stressful life and is much {{younger than she looks}}.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But then Bob reveals that he's a HumanAlien and is really a century old.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No one has friends with a different age than themselves.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Yeah, people think it's funny to be friends with someone old enough to be my mom."
* '''Invoked''': Bob's mother introduces him to an older relative, hoping they'll bond with each other.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to talk to anyone not near his own age unless he must.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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